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As a Portfolio Associate on Stryker’s Upper Extremities Upstream Marketing team, you will help shape the portfolio of the future! You'll conduct market analysis, gather customer insights, track performance, assess trends, and support marketing strategies. Your role will involve researching new markets, understanding product lifecycles, and contributing to commercialization plans. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with executive-level professionals, execute business-critical projects, and truly make healthcare better for our customers. If you're ready to thrive in a dynamic environment and help shape the future of healthcare, we want to hear from you!

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Understand the market positioning and strengths of key competitors

• Conduct Voice of Customer (VOC) to identify critical customer needs and preferences towards product development

• Track and report results/KPIs to marketing and sales leadership teams

• Assesses business/sales trends for new product introduction, communicate to key stakeholders responsible for demand planning/production

• Describe the basic offerings of a product line and their primary features

• Support in the construction of the marketing plan with specific analysis and collaborate in the development of key strategic initiatives

• Research and collect product information, service information and marketing literature

• Assist with researching new markets, opportunities and segments to support new product development

• Identify key elements within a new product's Value Proposition that requires evidence

• Understand the appropriate commercialization plans to put in place to earn new customers or expand in current categories

• Support of sales and medical education training initiatives and programs as needed

• Understands a product lifecycle management (PLCM) plan

WHAT YOU NEED

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree

• 0+ years of work experience

Preferred:

• Experience supporting product development initiatives

• Internship experience related to marketing, sales, product development (R&D), and/or healthcare

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.